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Re: grub-legacy can't read my ext2 partition?
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Felix Zielcke |
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Re: grub-legacy can't read my ext2 partition? |
Date: |
Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:54:56 +0100 |
Am Sonntag, den 15.11.2009, 22:45 -0800 schrieb Colin McCabe:
> Hi all,
>
> I have an ext2 partition and grub-legacy is unable to read any of the
> files on it. I created another partition and formatted it with ext3,
> and grub had no problems.
>
> I understand that grub-legacy is in "bugfix only" mode right now. But
> this does seem like it could be a bug.
It is not any more bugfix only but totally discontinued now.
> I am using fedora core 11. It comes with kernel 2.6.30.9-96.fc11.i686.PAE.
> I have tried using the grub that ships with Fedora Core 11 and also
> the grub-0.97.tar.gz from upstream, but with the same results.
> Actually, there was one difference-- the grub from upstream was unable
> to read the ext3 partition either!
>
> Here's a sample of the error message:
>
> =================================
> grub> root (hd0,1)
> Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
>
> grub> cat (hd0,1)/grub.conf
>
> Error 2: Bad file or directory type
> =================================
>
> Anyway. I thought I would mention this.
>
Use GRUB 2, it won't have this problem.
Debian/Ubuntu's GRUB Legacy shouldn't have this problem either.
--
Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer